Light setup Principles

[Barendby]

Hi Guys, I need some advice on a scene setup please.
Usually I do interiors, with a lot of mood. So the light setup is fairly easy, I add a light for each light fitting and tweak the intensity/ color to get the effect I need.

I now need to do a super bright/ white mood. Please see attached sample.
What is the easiest/ best way to achieve this?

Adding a super bright sky outside overexpose the area around the window but still fairly dark in the rest of the room?
Ideally, I don't want the exterior to overexposeeither, we still need to see the landscape in the view (I know it might need to be cheated)

[Nejc Kilar]

I would recommend you play with curves in the VFB and try to get make those slightly darker areas a bit more lighter. Alternatively you can use a LUT like the one from Kim A. aka The Dubcat :)

The lighting to me looks like a good starting point for the above modifications.

edit: took another look at the reference image. It is not a render, ha, my bad!

[Gruender]

Why don't you do it like a real photographer and place some artifical lights?

[Barendby]

I used LUT, some fake lights, tweaked the exposure, Highlight compress and white balance. I think it works.... personally I am not happy with the results yet but I think this will work for the first prelims. I will keep on experimenting with the settings.

[dj_buckley]

Hi Guys, I need some advice on a scene setup please.
Usually I do interiors, with a lot of mood. So the light setup is fairly easy, I add a light for each light fitting and tweak the intensity/ color to get the effect I need.

I now need to do a super bright/ white mood. Please see attached sample.
What is the easiest/ best way to achieve this?

Adding a super bright sky outside overexpose the area around the window but still fairly dark in the rest of the room?
Ideally, I don't want the exterior to overexposeeither, we still need to see the landscape in the view (I know it might need to be cheated)

A lot of it depends on the space too, does the space naturally get lots of natural light.  Start simple, corona sky in the enviornment, desaturated with via CC node.  That’ll give you the white light, then play with the ground colour of the sky to get more/less bounced light.  Then supplement with additional fill lights where needed

I’d say the example you posted is heavily post produced too and possibly has multiple shots blended together

[Jpjapers]

I use the kim amland LUTs in the vfb to achieve this very same look. I also set the sharpening to 7/0.250/0.05 for that sharp scandi look.

Bertrand Benoit also has a great tutorial for this look

https://bertrand-benoit.com/blog/quick-scandi-look/

[Barendby]

Thanks for the help guys!